Title

History by Polybius, Volume I

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History by Polybius. Volume I. French edition translated from Greek by Dom Vincent Thuillier. Comments of Military Science enriched with critical and historical notes by M. De Folard. Paris, chez Pierre Gandouin, Julien-Michel Gandouin, Pierre-Francois Giffart and Nicolas-Pierre Armand, 1727. Printing by Jean-Baptiste Lamesle. "Traite de La Colonne" (Treaty of the Column). How to form and fight in it. First Punic War. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus, naval battle, in 256 BC, between the fleets of Carthage, commanded by Hanno the Great and Hamilcar, and the Roman fleet jointly by the consuls Marcus Atilius Regulus and Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus. Roman victory.

Date

2018

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Keywords

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